Dear Everyone!

Saludos from your friendly neighborhood missionary!

The temple steps

A Jerusalem street scene

This week was a great week! It started out with Zone Leader Council on Tuesday. It was really cool because we got to go to the Jerusalem set down in Goshen that the church built for the movies of Christ. It was awesome to go see what they had built. It felt cool to be there even though we knew it wasn't the real Jerusalem. After our tour, we had the rest of the meeting on the steps of the area that they use as the temple. I am including some pictures.



Elder Getts by an olive tree in Goshen, Utah



This week we met with a man named Genaro Inoa from the Dominican Republic! He is 72 and had a stroke and a brain anurism 3 years ago and has recovered great. It is so awesome to hear his Dominican accent! We meet with him almost every day because he just stays at home and he is on date for baptism on October 20th. He needs a lot of time for us to teach him because he forgets things very easily. He came to church on Sunday. So you never know who will accept the Gospel, even old people who are supposed to be set-in-their-ways. We also had another investigator get married with her less-active boyfriend on Friday, so she is progressing toward her baptism on the 29th.

It has been interesting to be serving on BYU, because I see a lot of people I know just in passing and some of them don't recognize me, and some do.

Well, the transfer has come to an end.. Elder Espinoza will be opening a new area in Provo and training a new missionary, so he will be a district leader in the zone. My new companion is Elder Guzman, from Mexico. I don't know much else about him. I am way excited for the transfer and to get to work to lift up the zone because it has been suffering for a few months. President McCune is trying to have a set of Spanish Missionaries for each Spanish unit (ward or branch), so they divided a couple areas and there are a lot of missionaries training in the zone. So we will have a young zone and hopefully their enthusiasm will make the work improve a lot!

Also in our area, the whole ward got together to help a recent convert family who lives in a pretty run-down trailer to redo their roof, but the walls were so unstable that they had to redo them them first. So it turned out into a big project, but I was really impressed by the charity and love that they showed toward this family. I hope we all always strive to show that. They taught a lesson without saying anything!

Love,

 

 Elder Getts

 

Hello Everybody!

 

Elder Getts is doing great here in Provo. I love serving here and it has been amazing to see the hand of the Lord. This week we had some great experiences and I have been loving my scripture study! It just seems to make me hunger more and more to know Heavenly Father and Jesus better through the scriptures and the teachings of the Holy Ghost. This week we talked with a man named Wilbur who left to go back to Mexico on Sunday. He is 39 and has a wife and two daughters in Veracruz, Mexico. He told us that he was looking for the way to guide his daughters toward God and had a ton of doubts but was sincere in wanting to understand. We tried to answer his questions and were bold in declaring the truths of the restored gospel. We made sure to stress the importance of the Book of Mormon and establishing a foundation first before all of his questions could be answered. Elder Espinoza finished by sharing Alma 37:6 with him about small and simple things, and that really impacted him. We shared our testimonies and left full of the Spirit. We probably won't ever see him again in this life, but it was an amazing experience. A returned missionary called us yesterday with a referral about a girl named Nilcer. So we met with them in his apartment. She is from Honduras, and has heard about the church from friends there. She really wants to learn about it and has loved going to church the past couple of weeks. She seems very prepared to hear the gospel message.  We have been having great experiences as a companionship here.

 

I hope everyone has an awesome week and that each of you ACT and DO something to further the work of the Lord among your friends and family who have not received the Gospel yet!

 

Love,

Elder Getts